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Adoption of Improved Production Practices in Low Land Rice Through Community Training

M.H. Rashid
Crops Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Farmgate New Airport Road, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh

M.K.I. Rony
International Rice Research Institute, House-103, Road 1, Block F, Banani Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh

D. Mahalder
International Rice Research Institute, House-103, Road 1, Block F, Banani Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh

P.C. Goswami
International Rice Research Institute, House-103, Road 1, Block F, Banani Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) production technology adoption requires effective farmers’ training for narrowing knowledge gap. This paper assesses the result of community training on the extent of adoption of improved rice production practices in low land rice of south western Bangladesh. A total of 531 farmers were trained through community training approach and 177 farmers were randomly selected for data collection. The extent of adoption of improved rice production practices and reasons for nonadopting technologies were solicited by personal interview with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire. Collected data were analysed using descriptive and inferential techniques. The community training was suited to adopt rice production technologies. The adoption of different rice production technologies was greater by the adopters of Satkhira district compared to Khulna that resulted in significant rice yield difference. The constraints against the adoption of the selected rice production technologies show that a portion of adopters was not convinced to adopt row transplanting, skipped row planting and birds perch for controlling insects, use of appropriate K and S fertilizers due to requirement of higher labour and fertilizer and risk of reduction of rice yield. The integration of other extension methods such as method and result demonstration might enhance the rate of adoption of those rice production technologies.

Keywords: Technology Adoption, Community Training, Productivity; Rice Technology

Location: In the south-western coastal region of Bangladesh belongs to the Ganges Tidal Flood Plain, Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) 13

Start Date: 00-06-2014

End Date: 00-07-2014

Program Area: Knowledge Management

Non-commodity: Adoption and mitigation technology

Objectives:

The study was conducted to: i) determine the levels of adoption of rice production technologies by the trained farmers in the study area, ii) assess the influence of rice production technology adoption on the yield of rice and iii) identify major constraints in adopting rice production technologies by the adopted farmers.

Methodology:

The Study area The study conducted in the south-western coastal region of Bangladesh belongs to the Ganges Tidal Flood Plain, Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) 13. This region is almost flat and is about 1 m above the sea level. The average annual rainfall of the area is 1710 mm where rainfall occurs mainly from June to September. Monthly mean minimum temperature is 12.5°C in January and the maximum is 35.5°C in May. The soils of the study area are clay loam to clay in texture. Community training on rice production packages A day long farmer’s training on rice production was conducted at each of the 36 villages under 21 Unions of 7 Upazilas (sub-districts) of Khulna and Satkhira districts in south-western Bangladesh. Twenty-five to 30 farmers of both male and female were selected in a community for a batch of training. The small and medium farmers were selected through discussion with the community following the principle that at least 10% trainee would be female. The training was conducted before the crop growing activities i.e. during June and July 2014 which permitted for discretionary learning and successful application and bringing this into practice. The training sessions were conducted at suitable places of the community like school, Union Parishad (council or assembly) Complex, houses of some lead farmers and under the shade of big trees. The mode of training was informal. Participants were encouraged to share their experiences in rice production, processing, and storage of seeds. The facilitators tried to find out the gaps between their practices and the recommended packages of rice production. The facilitators facilitated the sessions using flip charts, real learning aid or samples like disease and insect infested rice plant, bad and good quality seeds. Practical skills such as seedling raising in a raised bed, seedling uprooting and transplanting with an optimum number of seedlings at an optimum spacing, seed production, processing and storing were demonstrated utilizing multi-media material with audio dialogue through discussing the process step-by-step guide. In order to ensure the farmer not overawed by receiving too much information at once, the video materials were delivered in a small segment. Data collection A total of 531 farmers were trained of which 177 farmers were selected randomly for data collection. The extent of adoption of rice production practices, grain yield obtained in the technology adopted fields was the dependent variable. Age, education, farming experiences of the sampled farmers was recorded. Some focus group-discussions were conducted in six randomly selected trained communities both in Khulna and Satkhira districts for listing the reasons against not adopting the improved practices and were included in the questionnaire for data collection from the selected respondents. Data were solicited by personal interview method with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire just after harvesting of rice during November to December 2014. The grain yield was measured from the adopted farmer’s fields, at the central part of the plot of 20 m² sample area and was adjusted to 14% moisture. Data analysis Farmers were trained on ten different rice production practices (four on fertilizer recommendations, six on other crop production practices) to adopt to their rice fields. Collected data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential techniques. The extent of adoption of rice production practices was measured against a two-point rating scale of 1 for “adoption” and 0 for “non-adoption”. In the case of adoption of the amount of fertilizer use and time of application, 5 to 10% variation was considered as adoption. The extent of adoption of agreed rice production practices was compared at the district level adopters. Data on grain yield of rice was analyzed with CROPSTAT 7.2 version. The least significant difference (LSD) was used at (P<0.05) to test the differences among the treatment means.

Source of Information: SAARC J. Agric., 17(1): 1-11 (2019)

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/sja.v17i1.42757

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Achievement/Findings:

The results indicate that the higher rate of technology adopters obtained higher grain yield. Therefore, informal need-based rice production training at the community level could be scaled out for successful technology adoption.

Knowledge Management: Journal